According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, roughly 1% of Georgians self-identify themselves most closely with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

[4] Stakes are located in Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Cartersville, Coal Mountain, Columbus, Conyers, Fayetteville, Kingsland, Lilburn, Macon, Marietta, Powder Springs, Roswell, Savannah, Sugar Hill, Tifton, and Winder.

The Southern States Mission headquarters was established in Rome (60 miles north of Atlanta).

One early convert to the Church donated land and built a chapel at Mormon Springs in Haralson County.

[6] Missionaries were initially treated well upon their return to the South, but before long their success led to violent opposition.

Ohio was added to the Southern States mission at the request of President Ben E. Rich, so he would have a place where ill missionaries could recover.

Sunday Schools had been established in Cedar Crossing, Douglas, Empire, Glenwood, Milledgeville, and Thomaston.

In December 1994, the Church donated 158,000 pounds of food through 26 religious and charitable organizations to the hungry in Atlanta.

Area headquarters in Atlanta include complete temporal and ecclesiastical distribution centers.